 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1841 - 324 pages
...difference of the errors. IV. If the errors are unlike — that is, one too large, and the other too small, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors. . EXAMPLES. 1. A man being asked what his carriage cost, replied, If it had cost twice as much as it... | |
 | Charles Waterhouse - Arithmetic - 1842 - 178 pages
...the errors. 3. If the errors are unlike — that is, one larger and one smaller than the given sum, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors. REMARKS. — Questions that may be solved by Single Position, are better solved by analysis. Double... | |
 | Nathan Daboll - Arithmetic - 1843 - 248 pages
...products l>\ the difference of the er, or», and the quotient will be the answer. 5. It the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum...will be the answer. NOTE. — The errors are said to he alike when they arc both too great, or both too small : and unlike, when on' is too great, and the... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1843 - 340 pages
...the products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. If the errors are .unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum...will be the answer. NOTE. — The errors are said £j be alike, when they are both too great, or both too small; and unlike, when one is too great and... | |
 | Nathan Daboll - Arithmetic - 1843 - 254 pages
...quotient will be the answer. 4. But if one result be greater, and the other less, than the true number, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. EXAMPLES. 1. A father gave his three sons 15000 dollars in the following manner ; to the first he gave... | |
 | George Hutton (arithmetic master, King's coll. sch.) - 1844 - 276 pages
...divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors; but if the errors are dissimilar, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the true number sought. o 1. 2. 1st Sup. income to be £160 2nd Sup. income to be £140 then | of £160... | |
 | Charles Haynes Haswell - Engineering - 1844 - 298 pages
...are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors ; but if they are unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors. EXAMPLE.— F asked G how much his boat cost ; he replied that If it cost him 6 times as much as it... | |
 | Charles WATERHOUSE - Arithmetic - 1844 - 228 pages
...the errors are unlike — that is, if one result is larger and the other smaller than the given sum, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors. When the errors are the same in quantity, and unlike in quality, half the sum of the suppositions is... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1845 - 334 pages
...the products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient tnll be the answer. If the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient »•«// be the answer. NOTE. — The errors are saM to be alike, when they are both too great, or... | |
 | Almon Ticknor - Arithmetic - 1846 - 274 pages
...quotient will be the answer. 5. If the errors be unlike, that is, one too small and the other too great, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. Note. — When the errors are the same in quantity, and unlike in quality, half the sum of the supposition... | |
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If the errors are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. 3. If the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. 
